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U2, Dion, Gang of Four, Wanda Jackson, Old 97s, Weightless Cats   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, January 17, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

U2: "Pride" and "MLK." Crushingly obvious. Have a dream.

GANG OF FOUR are advance streaming Content, the band's first LP in 15 years.

WANDA JACKSON is advance streaming The Party Ain't Over, featuring 12 cover songs produced by Jack White and myriad cameos.

THE OLD 97s stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

MISTER HEAVENLY, the indie supergroup featuring Man Man's Honus Honus, Islands' Nick Thorburn, Modest Mouse's Joe Plummer, and (as a touring member) Superbad/Scott Pilgrim actor Michael Cera-- are giving away a free two-track single in exchange for an address.

DION: A vintage (and this year, crackly) performance of "Abraham, Martin & John."

JAYHAWKS: Gary Louris talks to Spinner about the runion tour and follow-up album.

ARETHA FRANKLIN shot down reports that she had been stricken with pancreatic cancer, saying the surgery she just had is going to add 15 to 20 more years to her life.

LIZ PHAIR talks to the Denver Post about playing Matador 21, composing for TV, and more...

MYSPACE teeters on the brink; Digital Music News and Paid Content examine the impact on bands.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  The Green Hornet rode Black Beauty to the top of the chart with 34 million (against a reported 90 million budget).  After decades of development limbo, it's remarkable feat and major January debut, albeit inflated by 3-D receipts.  Cameron Diaz and Jay Chou may make this one do decent business worldwide.  The Dilemma opened in second with 17.4 million -- when Vice Vaughn and Kevin James usually open in the 30-40 million range.  After EdTV, Ron Howard should have considered that comedy is not his genre.  True Grit slides to third with 11.2 million, but has made 126.4 million against a 38 million budget.  The Coens' latest seems leggy and hasn't even opened overseas yet.  The expansion of The Kings Speech finds it leaping from ninth to fourth with 9 million and a 44.6 million total against a 15 million budget.  Black Swan again rounds out the Top Five with 8.1 million and a 73 million total against a 13 million budget.  Below the fold Season of the Witch tanks from third to tenth.

CHARLIE SHEEN: CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler told the nation's TV critics that "we have a high level of concern" about Charlie Sheen and the reported personal problems that he may or may not be wrestling with off-camera, but expressed confidence in his professionalism on the network's hit show, Two and a Half Men.  Sheen's Vegas hotel room was an orgy of booze and women -- complete with "big booby blonde girls fighting for his attention" -- according to a source who viewed the debauchery with her own eyes.

OWEN WILSON and his girlfriend, Jade Buell, have welcomed a son.

LINDSAY LOHAN was rejected by Donald Trump for a Celebrity Apprenticeship. However, Li-Lo is close to off the hook for the alleged altercation at Betty Ford.

ALICIA SILVERSTONE is expecting her first child with hubby Christopher Jarecki.

ZSA ZSA GABOR's right leg was amputated Friday because of a large, deep lesion that proved resistant to antibiotics, her surgeon said.

THE GOLDEN GLOBES went to these folks, after a night of heavy drinking an payola. On the plus side, host Ricky Gervais delivered a savage opening monologue.

AL QAEDA in the Arabian Peninsula planned to add poison to a bomb that was used in an assassination attempt that targeted a deputy Saudi interior minister, according to Jaber al Faifi, a member of the terror group.

IRAN's nuclear energy chief said the country's nuclear program has not been impacted by sanctions and enrichment of uranium was proceeding.  Meanwhile, the New York Times carries a long report suggesting the Stuxnet computer virus was designed as an American-Israeli project to sabotage the Iranian program.

PAKISTAN's minorities minister and an MP say they will defy death threats they have received for their efforts to reform blasphemy laws.

WEIGHTLESS CATS: I Can Haz Gravity?

JINX the CAT nurses Alfie the Piglet...Mass hysteria!

OVER 100 BABY BATS riddled with maggots and fly eggs, scratching for survival on the Gold Coast, Australia, have been rescued and wrapped in cute blankies.

A DEADLY PUFF ADDER SNAKE starts a long and winding road to the hospital.

MASS COW DEATHS: An investigation is under way after 200 dead cows were found in a field in the Town of Stockton, Wisc.

A STRANDED BABY DOLPHIN was rescued near Sanibel, FL.

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